tfb wrote:2. Formatting text is easy. Just highlight a block of text, hit the 'B' button for bold, 'i' for italics, 'u' for underline. F[url][url]forbes[/url][/url]or example:VanguardDiehardsForum

Test. [url][/url]

SeeMoe wrote:New test...forbes.com[url][/url]

SeeMoe - try this formaturl=www.bogleheads.org-or whatever web site you want]then whatever title you want here or repeat the web site[/urlnote - I did not put the brackets at the beginning or the end because I wanted to illustrate the middle, but there needs to be a [ before the url and a ] at the very end for the whole thing to work.

Miriam2 wrote:LadyGeek - my phpBB format buttons don't work - I need to type the code long hand Is it my computer or the forum?Also, my smilies won't work in the middle of my post, the smilie jumps to the end

Miriam2 wrote:LadyGeek - my phpBB format buttons don't work - I need to type the code long hand Is it my computer or the forum?Also, my smilies won't work in the middle of my post, the smilie jumps to the end

SeeMoe - You need to put the first url like this -->> [url=then put the web site here] The = must be there.Your concluding url looks correct -->>[/url]I have to add the = and the / sometimes because the forum doesn't do it for me, but it has to be there for the whole link to work

Miriam2 wrote:SeeMoe -You need to put the first url like this -->> [url=then put the web site here]The = must be there.Your concluding url looks correct -->>[/url]I have to add the = and the / sometimes because the forum doesn't do it for me, but it has to be there for the whole link to work

No apology needed. I was laughing so hard =) at how creative you three were, in response to me trying to ascertain if my computer would let me post here. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, which keeps things interesting.

tfb wrote:The is a test post for the purpose of demonstrating the features of the new board.

Quoting the post you are responding to is also easy. Just hit the quote button before you reply.

Edit: corrected typo

Editing a post is also easy. If you made typo or want to make clarification, no problem! Just hit the Edit button. Common usage requires that you put a note at the end saying what you edited, but it's totally up to you!

This is a test reply, and a question or two.How do we contact an Administrator? I cannot find the "contact us" link mentioned in the last FAQ.Also, I saw a few topics that were questions for a panel. Are any Answres but the panels posted anywhere to be able to read them?Thank you.

Tony Conig wrote:This is a test reply, and a question or two.How do we contact an Administrator? I cannot find the "contact us" link mentioned in the last FAQ.Also, I saw a few topics that were questions for a panel. Are any Answres but the panels posted anywhere to be able to read them?Thank you.

Not sure if this is the official best practices way, but you could always "report" your own post. Just click the exclamation point in the upper right corner of your post and follow on from there.

Tony Conig wrote:This is a test reply, and a question or two.How do we contact an Administrator? I cannot find the "contact us" link mentioned in the last FAQ.Also, I saw a few topics that were questions for a panel. Are any Answres but the panels posted anywhere to be able to read them?Thank you.

Reporting a post does work, but that feature is better intended to flag issues that need immediate attention. The best way to contact an administrator is by PM'ing one of the global moderators listed in The team link at the bottom of every forum page.

If you don't get a response, then report the post and someone will take care of it.

In addition to moderating (edit posts, etc.), moderators can do some administrative functions such as changing a username. A site admin (like me) does everything a moderator can do, as well as administrate the overall forum.

The panel questions are for the upcoming Bogleheads® Conference. <-- See this wiki page for links to the conference material.

I'll venture a WAG: phpBB forum links all start with the same prefix, i.e. https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php... in the case of this forum. That provides little info about what follows. So if someone posts a series of them they'd all look the same. By showing only the trailing part of the URL it's much easier to distinguish these types of links from one another, i.e. by looking at the topic and post numbers at the end.

Is there a prize for correct answers?

P.S. Observant lurkers may have noticed that I managed to dupe the forum software into showing the prefix part of a forum link. I did that by italicizing the "://" in the URL. Without that hack it would have appeared as viewtopic.php...